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Re: [docbook-apps] Superscript footnote numbers in XHTML not formatting correctly

  • 1.  Re: [docbook-apps] Superscript footnote numbers in XHTML not formatting correctly

    Posted 02-20-2012 18:38
    Hi,
    I checked in the fix for this, putting the whole inside the anchor. That seems to work well. It will be in the next snapshot.

    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    bobs@sagehill.net


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Xmplar
    To: Bob Stayton
    Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
    Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 5:42 PM
    Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Superscript footnote numbers in XHTML not formatting correctly


    I tried a few variations, and noted that with the default generated markup, the problem of a split footnote number occurs only with the first footnote in a chunk - subsequent footnotes in the chunk are rendered correctly (which is, a smaller superscript number and the hyperlink immediately underneath only the number: [1c]). This is the case for Firefox, Chrome and SeaMonkey. IE8 breaks the footnote across two lines.

    I then found a workaround that renders the first footnote correctly in most browsers (IE8 still breaks across lines) - put an empty tag before the (though having duplicate tags might have issues regarding accessibility or validity, and I'm not sure if epubcheck would pass such a chunk as valid):

    [1c]

    But the markup that is rendered most consistently across browsers is to put the superscript inside the :

    [1a]

    This places the hyperlink underline a small distance below the superscript and makes the square brackets and the number active - this could be better than the default markup because there's a slightly larger active link area.



    On 18-02-12 4:42 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:
    Hi Dave,
    That HTML code looks legit to me. Can you try these variants and see if any of them work in all the browsers?

    Original: earth occur in Australia.[1] More ...



    Variant 1: earth occur in Australia.[1] More ...



    Variant 2: earth occur in Australia.[1] More ...



    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    bobs@sagehill.net


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Xmplar
    To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
    Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:46 AM
    Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Superscript footnote numbers in XHTML not formatting correctly


    Bob,
    I've viewed this chunk with Firefox 10, Google Chrome 17 and SeaMonkey 2.7 - they all show the first footnote the same way as my screenshots. Internet Explorer 8 actually shows the left-bracket, then *breaks* the rest of the footnote number onto the next line! (number and right-bracket). Only IE6 shows the first footnote number correctly.

    Here is the part of the HTML output:

    ... earth occur in Australia.[1] More ...

    This is exactly the same output for the next footnote - it seems to be a browser problem. Interesting...

    On 17-02-12 5:03 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:
    Hi Dave,
    Can you show what the generated HTML code looks like?

    Does this problem show up in other browsers?

    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    bobs@sagehill.net


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Xmplar
    To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
    Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:28 AM
    Subject: [docbook-apps] Superscript footnote numbers in XHTML not formatting correctly


    I am producing XHTML 1.1 files with DB5 1.76.1ns and Saxon 6.5.5 - regarding superscript footnote numbers in body text, the first footnote is not correctly sized to superscript size - the footnote number and the closing right square bracket are the same size as the body text (whereas the opening square bracket is correctly sized). The second footnote number in the same paragraph is sized properly. See the attached screenshots.
    I have made sure my customisation layer and CSS file is not interfering. I'm using the markup: <footnote><para>text...</para></footnote>.

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    Dave Gardiner



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